{"nrhp_refnum":"98001318","name":"Phillips Farm","other_names":["Percy-Pitt Farm","Vdhr #133-0695"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"6353 Godwin Blvd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Suffolk (Independent City)","county":"Suffolk","state":"VA","lat":36.87789440800003,"lon":-76.58381009999994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-10-30","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmhouse on Route 10 north of Chuckatuck in the City of Suffolk, Virginia, built about 1820 as a one-story house on a raised brick basement and raised to a clerestory house in 1848. It sits on 6.5 acres of the original 189-acre farm.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is one of a small number of regional clerestory houses, a type found only in a four-county area of southeastern Virginia between the James and Blackwater Rivers. It is described as the best preserved of the five documented clerestory houses, the largest of the fourteen recorded, and one of two with the highest craftsmanship.","narrative":"Set on a ridge known as the Tidewater Escarpment north of Chuckatuck, this farmhouse in Suffolk, Virginia, began about 1820 as a one-story, single-pile house on a raised brick basement. In 1848 it was enlarged to the west and raised to a clerestory house, with nine continuous windows across the upper story and a salt box roof at the rear. The nomination identifies it as one of fourteen recorded clerestory buildings in southeastern Virginia, a house type found in Surry, Isle of Wight, Nansemond and Southampton counties and built roughly between 1820 and 1850. It is described as the largest of the group, with three rooms upstairs, and the best preserved of the five clerestory houses. Original trim, mantels, floors and doors survive. The house was vacant for about ten years before a restoration in 1982-84 that left its floor plan intact. A relocated wood outbuilding stands on the 6.5 acres that remain of the original 189-acre farm.","period_of_significance":"C:1820","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early Republic: Federal; Other: Clerestory House","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Restored in 1982-84 after about ten years vacant and open to the elements; currently used as a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.244984-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/6838/41683847/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/98001318.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001318/2f5a8342ee-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001318/2f5a8342ee-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillips_Farmhouse_through_driveway_trees.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phillips_Farmhouse_through_driveway_trees.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683847","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Farm","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16898351"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/suffolk/phillips-farm-98001318/"}